"What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?" - Anthony Trollope
"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late." Benjamin Franklin
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” - Friedrich Nietzsche, 'Maxims and Arrows' (1889).
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is perspective, not the truth." — René Descartes
Quote: When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means the sun is about to set.
Meaning: When people with little wisdom or character gain too much power or influence, it's often a sign of decline not progress. Shadows grow long only when the light is fading.
Meaning: When people with little wisdom or character gain too much power or influence, it's often a sign of decline not progress. Shadows grow long only when the light is fading.
"How can we trust history if the present is being falsified before our very eyes?" — Amin Elsadany
"Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth." -Jules Verne
"Place one hundred men on an island from which there is no escape, and whether you make one of these men the absolute owner of the other ninety-nine, or the absolute owner of the soil of the island, will make no difference either to him or to them." -Henry George, Progress and Poverty
"I'm not shy, I just don't speak if I don't have anything to say. That's what tact is. Tact is the art of saying nothing when there's nothing to say." -Fiona Apple
“When I want to relax, I read an essay by Engels. When I want to read something serious, I read Corto Maltese.” - Umberto Eco.
"Even gods and goddesses may die. I stand before you as the warning against a particularly bad idea. There is no sword so sharp it draws blood from a mistaken thought." - The Widow's House, by Daniel Abraham
"One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away." - Stephen Hawking
"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each." - Plato
“If you win, you live. If you lose, you die. If you don’t fight, you can’t win.” - Eren Yeager, Attack on Titan
The truth shall make you free, but first it shall make you angry. - James A. Garfield
"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it." -John Lennon
I can't hate you because you couldn't love me. I was never gonna be the one for you and I knew that. But a part of me just wanted to still feel loved...